I have about two hundred bibtex references in my document. Sometimes I am browsing the references section and find something that I want to use again. Let's say there is an item like the following:
[45] Smith, John. Whatever paper, 2013
The problem is then which ID should I use in order to add another reference to the same paper? There are two ways to include such reference again:
- Search for "Whatever paper" in the bibtex file and see that the ID is "
smith2013.blablabla". - Search for [45] on the generated PDF file, then find a text like "
according to Smith [45]", then go to the TEX file and find "according to Smith \cite{smith2013.blablabla}".
This is obviously time consuming. It would be much better to see those IDs on the exported references:
[45] [smith2013.blablabla] Smith, John. Whatever paper, 2013
I only want to see this while I am writing the document, so it should be easy to remove those IDs when I generate the final version.
.bibfile? – Werner Mar 17 '14 at 21:00